Here; an excerpt:
The three French tourists who tested positive for H5N1 after visiting a bird park in Thailand clearly show that H5N1 in Thailand is transmitted by casual contact. H5N1 positive data suggest that hundreds or thousands of visitors would have also been infected by the H5N1 at the zoo. However, these infections produced mild cases, which were tested early because they had returned to the French Island of Reunion from Thailand.
The index case was weak and had a headache. When he tested positive, other members of the 19 person tour group were questioned and two had bird flu symptoms. They too tested positive for H5N1.
The testing on the three tourists was similar to nephews in Indonesia who also were H5N1 positive, although they had mild cases. They were tested because their aunt or uncle has already tested positive for H5N1. Both nephews recovered and have been discharged....The familial and geographic clusters in Thailand and Indonesia support widespread transmission of H5N1 that produces mild cases....
WHO has been able to maintain the false pandemic phase 3 by systematically screening out examples of human-to-human transmission.
These activities endanger the world's health and these methodologies should be subject to outside review....
The 2005 pandemic is at phase 5 or 6 and appropriate action is warranted.
The only positive news here is that the causal contact cases of bird flu proved to be mild.
typo in the last line of your post:
for "causal" read "casual"
some good jokes in there, but I'll refrain...
Posted by: Tad Brennan | October 27, 2005 at 11:01 AM